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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1910
Page
3
Auditor Billheimer objects to Examiner Telling seeking a receiver. The American Trust Co remains solvent as new officers take charge while receivership talks unfold. J. M. Martin becomes president, replacing Lebanon banks’ former leadership. A. J. Sheby injured in an auto crash. O. R. Smily unharmed.
Mrs Frank Renner awoke to jingle of the safe and frightened away burglars at work on township funds. Central Christian church sale raised 2000 for debt, despite world unique roof garden. Two girls in Halloween Masquerade forced to change attire, Mayor Barnumby bans masquerading. Willard Ault family injured after carriage collision with auto driven by Harold Brumfield, who had earlier been discharged by Dr A J Banker.
In Lawrenceburg Indiana on November 2 a pullet unable to lay produced thirteen eggs. One chick hatched completely bald with no feathers and a smooth body. The hen refused to brood it, and William N Head raised the chick in his kitchen. The featherless chick grew plump and shrewdly described as bald as a billiard hall.
President McConnell at DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana removed Jerome Powers as editor of the DePauw Daily on Tuesday. The action followed editorial attacks on the student council and college authorities over the punishment of sophomores involved in the irregular class scrap earlier in the fall. Eldie Troxell was appointed temporary editor.
Lawrenceburg Indiana November 2 William T Young 91 the only living first settler of Miami bottoms declares as there are more than 365 days in every year by six hours that counting leap years he is entitled to add about another year to his age. He is the only living person in this vicinity who was personally acquainted with William Henry Harrison.
Sam Hendrickson, a mail carrier, chased a thief who seized a mail sack Tuesday night and fled into an alley, but the robber escaped after cutting the sack open. The sack was thrown from the car on the nonstandard side. loot amount unknown.
In Noblesville Indiana on November 2 three women Mrs N L Chew Mrs J K Wisher and Mrs James H Harris rescued a dying horse trapped under a buggy wheel after a downhill stumble. The trio traded ice cream for vegetables including cabbages pumpkins and turnips and continued into town with the grateful animal recovering.
Special to The Sur reports Kosciusko county Democrats and Republicans agreed not to name candidates for justice of the peace and constable in several townships where the division of honors was even. At the eleventh hour the Prohibition party named candidates and could win unopposed, prompting Democrats to field their own candidates. The Democrats expect victory as Republicans were late to field a ticket.
In Kokomo Indiana on November 2 Bessie Michaels traded a horse and buggy given by W P Eisen for a ride with Elsea. Joe Watkins, who rode with Bessie, faced arrest on Elsea’s charge but proved no involvement in the trade. Bessie declares she fears no arrest and insists Elsea would not harm her.
Gary Indiana rises from fifth to fourth class after census shows 16802 residents with over a thousand added since the enumeration seven months prior. Mayor Knotts says the shift ends the mayor’s role as city judge and allows appointment of a park board works board of police commissioners and a city controller.
Terre Haute Ind Nov 2 Receiver Myron Carpenter of the Southern Indiana road received authority from the United States court to pay 68000 in outstanding car trust notes The road is to be sold Thursday at auction in Terre Haute The Chicago Syndicate which took over the property after the failure of the John R Walsh bikes has reorganized the corporation and will buy in the road Receiver Carpenter associated with these men in Chicago will likely continue in a position with general management Most freight earnings come from coal traffic to Chicago Five hundred route cars have been ordered and will begin economy this week Six freight engines also are on tenure
Lawrenceburg witness, former Sheriff Ellsworth F. E. Collins, reports a snipe and a bullfrog fought to death on Tuesday. The snipe pierced the bull frog’s throat as it landed for a drink, trapping both combatants in a doomed struggle.
Crawfordsville Ind Nov 2 gif ford Pinchot urged Wabash students not to take up forestry unless they were willing to devote their lives to it. If it is a choice between forestry and some other profession, said the former chief forester, do not choose forestry. Forestry demands all one's energies.
Blanche McCarty, 16, filed for divorce from Earl McCarty, 20, in Elwood Indiana on November 2. She seeks custody of their 14 month old child. The birth made her the youngest mother in Elwood and her mother Mrs Doxie Craig, 32, the youngest grandmother in the state. The husband is expected not to contest. the suit alleges cruelty.
Thirty members of the Manufacturers Club of Cincinnati visited Gary Indiana to inspect United States Steel Corp steel works bridge print and tin plate mills. Led by W F Robertson and guided by George W Wheaton they toured plant sites and toured Gary hotels before departing for Chicago.
Special to The Suan from Princeton reports Thomas Rigas donkey named Jack stopped a fast Southern railway passenger from Tuesday until a passenger with a burning newspaper scared him back onto the rack. Trainmen tried coaxing and beating but failed to move the animal.
In Peru Indiana on a Tuesday revel, a policeman woke a sleeping drunk man by tickling his feet after revelers removed shoes and socks. The incident ended without further trouble as the officer roused the man with the unusual method.
Charles Miler, last seen twenty years ago, has been heard from just as a legal declaration of death was to be issued. His disappearance followed by his mother's death and a decade of estate settlement finally concluded with a letter from Kansas announcing his return.
In Lafayette Indiana on November 2 Eugene Burke was shot and seriously wounded by Lyle Wishart. Wishart, who was in a plank on the Wabash river, returned fire after a crowd of boys hurled rocks at him with a shotgun.
Ira Otts Moyer, a Pennsylvania brakeman, was standing on a sidetrack when a fast passenger train rounded the bend and struck him from behind. He died instantly.
In Rushville Indiana on November 2 B F Martin a well known local farmer fought off a Jersey bull that charged him pinning him to the ground once he escaped the horns he grabbed an iron bar and struck the animal until it surrendered Morris Whistle Trigger of Indianapolis arrived to work on the streets and recalled lighting streets here a quarter century ago.
Mrs. Katherine Tipton filed for divorce from Rev. Bunien Tipton alleging fraud in their marriage. She is worth about $20,000 and says he pressed her to transfer half her property and endow him with it, while neighbors report he left her for another woman. Friends call the charges unjustified.
New York November 2. A man long barred from Barnard College has won a victory in his fight for equal rights. To help fund a building program and gym lockers the college will admit men to junior and sophomore class plays at sixteen dollars per head. Barrios Quality Street and Pinero s Trelawney of the Wells are the plays chosen for the maiden male audience.
New Haven Conn Nov 2 William Henry Brewer aged 82 longtime Yale professor of physical geography died Wednesday after a several weeks illness due to heart disease. He was for many years president of the Arctic Club of America and a member of the expedition that attempted to reach the North Pole.
The United States plans a dam project near Madison Ohio with Magle Hollow surveys by 35 engineers and 40 assistants. The location is set two miles above Madison for Dam No 40 and cost is projected at 31 700 000 dollars.
Augustus Gahimer has been adjudged insane and will be placed in the Richmond Insane asylum after he ran amuck in Manilla Sunday chasing Miss Mary Arbuckle with a butcher knife, mistaking her for his wife.
In Anderson Indiana on November 2 a witness described the hobble dance seen Tuesday night as a turkey parade style event. He notes stiff legged walking banging on partners shoulders and wall flowers rising as skirts lift followed by hops slides and jig jumps ad infinitum. He fears mothers will curb the dance after rumors spread.
The hydraulic dam near Noblesville Indiana will not be sold at auction November 19 as ordered by Judge Vestal. The matter was moved out of the local court’s jurisdiction when Indianapolis creditors filed bankruptcy in federal court. The local campaign closes Wednesday night with speeches by former Gov. W T Durbin and E E Neal a congress candidate.
In Kokomo Sylvester Bess slept off a beer overdose near a Leach stone quarry edge and was saved from a sixty foot fall by police who charged him with drunkenness. In Corydon Reason Showmaker age 61, long a hermit in Posey township, was found dead after his longtime heartbreak.
Senator Albert B. Cummins spoke in Huntington Indiana denouncing overcapitalization of major firms including a 1.6 billion dollar steel trust as taxation on national effort. He urged a national incorporation law and federal oversight with repeated praise for Albert J. Beveridge drawing enthusiastic applause.
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